Fairfax Hall

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Fairfax Hall
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Fairfax Hall is located in Virginia
Fairfax Hall
Location Winchester Ave., Waynesboro, Virginia
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Area 20 acres (8.1 ha)
Built 1890, 1926
Architect Poindexter, William
Architectural style Late 19th And 20th Century Revivals, Queen Anne, European Renaissance
NRHP Reference # 82004609[1]
VLR # 136-0010
Significant dates
Added to NRHP September 9, 1982
Designated VLR July 20, 1982[2]

Fairfax Hall, also known as Brandon Hotel or Fairfax Hall School, is a historic building located at Waynesboro, Virginia. It was built in 1890, and is a 2 1/2-story, very long and rambling resort hotel building in the shingled mode of the Queen Anne style. It has an irregular symmetry with towers at either end of the facade, a one-story porte cochere, a distinctive octagonal belvedere and cupola, and glassed in first story porches. Also on the property is a contributing gymnasium, built in 1926 in the European Renaissance style. It was originally occupied by the Brandon Hotel resort. The Brandon closed in 1913 but the building reopened as a school. In 1920 the school became Fairfax Hall, a junior college and preparatory school for girls. After the school closed in 1975, it was leased by the Virginia Department of Corrections as a training academy but then purchased and reopened as a retirement home.[3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.[1]

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